Turning Sawdust into Gold: Leveraging the Byproducts of Your Tech Journey

Explore the art of uncovering hidden treasures in your tech journey. Learn to turn unintended byproducts of your work into valuable assets. This talk is all about finding unexpected opportunities, embracing change, and making the most of your tech career.

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1. "I'm a techie with a knack, I can code and hack, I can build a website or an app, no matter the stack." Can you say this in 2.5 seconds?
2. Turning Sawdust into Gold: Leveraging the Byproducts of Your Tech Journey LOVE OTUDOR
3. Meet Me 👋 Hello! I'm Love Otudor, a Google-certified Android developer and Technical writer. 👩‍💻 I Currently work as an Android developer at Frontendlabs and I am passionate about contributing to open source projects. I am a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador (WTM) and currently co-lead the WTM Uyo and GDG Uyo community.
4. Agenda The Carpenter’s story The Tech Journey Unintended Byproducts What Is "Sawdust" in Tech? Turning Sawdust into Gold
5. The Carpenter’s story
6. Expectation Reality The Tech Journey
7. Unintended Byproducts SECONDARY OUTCOMES OR DISCOVERIES
8. What Is "Sawdust" in Tech?
9. What Is "Sawdust" in Tech? Knowledge and Learnings Sample Projects or Code Snippet Network: Peers, Mentors, Mentees New Project Ideas Failures
10. Turning Sawdust into Gold
11. "The act of teaching is the ultimate act of learning." PETER DRUCKER
12. Share Your Knowledge and Learnings Write and share a blog post or an article Give a presentation or workshop Create how to tutorial videos Share your knowledge with a wider audience and to get feedback from others. A more personal way to share your knowledge and to interact with others. Creating step-by-step guides to build a sample project and document your thought process.
13. Contribute and Collaborate Contribute to Open Source.Good First Issue and First Contributions are websites that curates a list of beginner friendly issues from a variety of open source projects. Collaborate with your Network to build projects Make your Projects open source Create Git Gists and talk about them
14. "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." HENRY FORD
15. Do it Scared!
16. Do you have any questions?
17. @lamouresparus THANK YOU! Love Otudor